This is Chapter 1. Chapter Number 1- Phil
Brief description of the plot:
The beginning of The Jungle involves Ona and Jurgis wedding celebration. They are immigrants from Lithuania, and arriving to the city turns out to be more complicated than they were expecting. Their wedding celebration is in the custom of a Lithuanian wedding, many people are invited to eat and drink, but are highly suggested to help pay for the wedding. A few take advantage of this custom and both Ona and Jurgis begin to worry about being able to pay the tab. The bartender regularly overcharges his customers and takes advantage of the new family. It turns out that Jurgis will attempt to try harder to cover their losses. Characters in the Chapter:
Marija Berczynskas, Ona Lukoszaite, Jurgis Rudkus, Teta Elzbieta Notable passages (including page number):
”’We will pay them all somehow. I will work harder.’ That was what Jurgis always said. Ona had grown used to it as a solution of all difficulties-‘I will work harder’” Pg 18
“By him [Saloonkeeper] you were sure to be cheated unmercifully, and that even though you thought yourself the dearest of the hundreds of friends he had” Pg 16
“Bit by bit these poor people have given up everything else, but to this they cling with all the power of their souls- they cannot give up the veselija!” Pg 13
Chapter Number 1- Phil
Brief description of the plot:
The beginning of The Jungle involves Ona and Jurgis wedding celebration. They are immigrants from Lithuania, and arriving to the city turns out to be more complicated than they were expecting. Their wedding celebration is in the custom of a Lithuanian wedding, many people are invited to eat and drink, but are highly suggested to help pay for the wedding. A few take advantage of this custom and both Ona and Jurgis begin to worry about being able to pay the tab. The bartender regularly overcharges his customers and takes advantage of the new family. It turns out that Jurgis will attempt to try harder to cover their losses.
Characters in the Chapter:
Marija Berczynskas, Ona Lukoszaite, Jurgis Rudkus, Teta Elzbieta
Notable passages (including page number):
”’We will pay them all somehow. I will work harder.’ That was what Jurgis always said. Ona had grown used to it as a solution of all difficulties-‘I will work harder’” Pg 18
“By him [Saloonkeeper] you were sure to be cheated unmercifully, and that even though you thought yourself the dearest of the hundreds of friends he had” Pg 16
“Bit by bit these poor people have given up everything else, but to this they cling with all the power of their souls- they cannot give up the veselija!” Pg 13